THE SIZE OF LONDON.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2176, 20 June 1890, Page 4

THE SIZE OF LONDON.

You have probably all heard or read of those huge cities of the ancient world, Babylon and Rome, and have been very much impressed with descriptions of their size. Well, although we have no means ot telling exactly how many people lived in them, it is safe to say that the inhabitants of London today are twice as cumeroua aa were those of botfi these great places put together. Those of you who know Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, or any other of our large cities, will be surprised to hear that in London there are more than as many houses as there are people in any of them. London contains as many folk as the whole of Ire land, -and, many more than are to be fqiirid itj 1 Scotland. If all who can call themneivea '; Londoners " were to walk by you at the rate of 100 a minute never- stopping day or ni^h't, it would be five we.k i before they had passed, Sup»

posing that you wished to walk through all the streets and lanes and alleys of the great metropolis, and were able to arrange your trip so cleverly 'hat you never traversed the samn one twice, you would have to walk 10 miles every day for nine years before your journey was at an end. In London there are more Roman Catholics than are to be found in Rome, more Jews than the whole of Palestine contains, more Scotsmen than live in Aberdeen, more Irishmen than call Belfast their home, and more Welshmen than Cardiff holds.